Description: Resilient America : Electing Nixon in 1968, Channeling Dissent, and Dividing Government, Paperback by Nelson, Michael; Hetherington, Marc J. (FRW), ISBN 0700624422, ISBN-13 9780700624423, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK Richard E. Neustadt Award To look at the partisan polarization that paralyzes Washington today is to see what first took shape with the presidential election of 1968. This book explains why. Urban riots and the Tet Offensive, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, the politics of outrage and raceall pointed to a reordering of party coalitions, of groups and regions, a hardening and widening of an ideological divideand to the historical importance of the 1968 election as a watershed event. Resilient America captures this extraordinary time in all its dramathe personalities, the politics, the parties, the events and the circumstances, from the shadow of 1964 through the primaries to the general election that pitted Richard Nixon against Hubert Humphrey, with George Wallace and Eugene McCarthy as the interlopers. Where most accounts of this pivotal yearand the decade that followedemphasize the coming apart of the nation, this book focuses on the fact that because of measures taken after the election the country actually held together. An esteemed scholar of the American presidency, Michael Nelson turns our attention to how, in spite of increasing (and increasingly vehement) differences, the parties of the time managed to make divided government work. Conventional political processespeaceful demonstrations, congressional legislation, executive initiatives, Supreme Court decisions, party reforms, and presidential politicswere flexible enough to absorb most of the dissent that tore America deeply in 1968 and might otherwise have torn it apart. This fraught time, as Nelson's work clearly demonstrates, produced unity as well as results well worth noting in our current predicament.
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Book Title: Resilient America : Electing Nixon in 1968, Channeling Dissent, a
Number of Pages: 360 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Resilient America: Electing Nixon in 1968, Channeling Dissent, and Dividing Government
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Publication Year: 2017
Subject: Government, Politics, History
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Weight: 520 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Michael Nelson
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
